I’d imagine it’s the massive number of user delete requests of people wiping their accounts in protest.
Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Over 90% of subreddits are currently dark. Impossible they had an excess of traffic
By far not 90% of the subs are dark. It's 6000 subs out of 500,000, or 1.2%. Most people don't care at all about this blackout and are just checking the homepage anyway, which will always pull content no matter what. Reddit always has issues at this time (NA wakes up, EU gets off of work), nothing unusual.
1.2% of subs does not imply that 1.2% of the user base is gone. A lot of those 500k subs have less than 5k subscribers. Only a small portion of subreddits contribute to the vast amount of content on reddit.
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#124HN is also really slow, this could be a wider-spread backend issue like when that one CDN took down half of the internet with it.
HN tends to slow to a crawl every time Reddit is offline, because Redditors come here instead.
Conspiracy theory: Hacker news is actually just a thin layer of code with a subreddit as its back end.
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#125Just tried to go to the site, got the "You broke reddit!" page. They don't know how right they are.
I just got that! Laughed my ass off. If ya say so!
Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
#126Lots of speculation on Twitter about this—a failed attempt to re-open all closed subreddits and instate their own moderators. I can't imagine it'd be that, although I do enjoy the conspiracy, and more likely they were using the window of reduced traffic to make some larger changes and they went awry
Pointless speculation. Reddit has constant outages of this exact nature almost weekly. There's nothing special about this one.
I've been a long-time user of Reddit (I still remember when WSB had only 12m users) and I can't remember an outage.
Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
#127Lots of speculation on Twitter about this—a failed attempt to re-open all closed subreddits and instate their own moderators. I can't imagine it'd be that, although I do enjoy the conspiracy, and more likely they were using the window of reduced traffic to make some larger changes and they went awry
Pointless speculation. Reddit has constant outages of this exact nature almost weekly. There's nothing special about this one.
Reddit definitely doesn’t have outages like this almost weekly. Maybe ten+ years ago, but it’s rare now.
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#128time to migrate to 4chan
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
A meme pointing out that u/spez was a mod of r/jailbait in 2008 was the top post on r/all a few hours ago
Doesn't seem that unbelievable when you look into some of the other stuff he's done. For example he secretly used his admin powers to edit user comments from users he didn't like or who criticized him.
I don't like what he's done one bit, nor him personally, but this is a really big stretch and not really the level of comment HN should strive for.
EDIT: to clarify -- a big stretch to connect editing comments (which was well-known to have happened) with other actions.
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#130Pure speculation: With so many subs now private, they're hitting a performance wall searching for enough content to fill the front page. If I'm logged in and go to the site root, it throws an error. If logged out, it works. If I go to a specific (not privatized) sub, it works.